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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.

Melinda Gates

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Country Myself Quality Woman World
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World

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